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In reply to the discussion: Some worthy comments from an Australian: [View all]Bev54
(13,508 posts)What is your purpose of saying that? Every country has their problems, nobody is claiming to be perfect, but the problems other countries have is not affecting the entire world. Australians are not threatening to invade or annex other countries, starting wars to cause world wide shortages and high inflation. That is on the US and it is time for a big wake up call. We, the rest of the world, are watching the US democracy burn and don't see anybody willing to do anything about it. It is the US as a whole, not republican or democrat, that brought this on, and not Rupert Murdoch either as one poster tried to blame. A large portion of your electorate are uneducated and 1/3 don't even bother to vote. We, the world, are not here to pick you up, that is all up to you. The US is now the evil axis of the world and we are all turning away, not likely to come back any time soon because it is quite likely this could happen again.
It is up to the US to stand up and fight and make the changes to ensure this shit never happens again, which means changing your constitution along with so much more, but we don't see that ever happening, when people can't even bother to vote, let alone get involved. If you are expecting us to sooth you and lift you up, we will when you help yourselves.